What is Alexa? What is a photograph? What defines social justice warrior (SJW)? Select one of these situations, and then address it, using the strategies either of formal definitions or of operational ones. For example, might a formal definition help to explain what products like Alexa or Homekit are?Would an operational definition work to explain or defend what SJWs allegedly do or don’t do?
This chapter opens with three rhetorical situations that center on definitional issues: What is Alexa? What is a photograph? What defines social justice warrior (SJW)? Select one of these situations, and then address it, using the strategies either of formal definitions or of operational ones. For example, might a formal definition help to explain what […]